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Chicago examiner Chicago examiner vou vii no 41 a m saturday february 6 1909 14 pages price one cent deliver by carrier 30 cents per month senate of oregon joins anti-japan agitation with exclusion bill measure asks that all oriental races be barred from the united states situation is more acute nevada assembly passes law prohibiting landownership by asiatics g arson city nev feb 5 late this afternoon the nevada assembly passed the anti-alien land bill introduced by representative giffen this bill prohibits asiatics and japanese from ownership of land or mortgages salem oregon feb 5 â€” senator bailey introduced in the state sen ate to-day a resolution providing for the exclusion of all asiatics but it w?s not reported in time for action before the adjournment at noon the resolution is sweeping it names chi nese japanese and hindus and in cludes all rfces of the orient asking to prohibit their admission settlement or naturalization in the united states washington d c feb s the american-japanese situation is more complex and full of dangerous pos sibilities to-day than it has been since the renewal of the so-called anti-japanese agitation on the pa cific coast this situation is amply corroborated between the lines of the assertion of the president himself wben be telegraphed governor gillett tbat segregative legislation passed by the california assembly is the most offensive of all to japanese this statement of the president it is believed must bave been originally as now predicated on specific threats to this government by the japanese government policy of silence dangerous there is good reason to believe ihat the japanese ambassador is sulking in his tent and that be will not make any fur ther protest to this government a policy of silence on the part of a nation in acute controversy with another nation is always dangerous it appears now that the president can not appeal to senators flint and perkins to assist him in the new problem sen ator perkins believes that the president is wrong in opposing the segregation legis lation and although senator flint has uot expressed himself it is well known that he is not opposed to the separatiou of white children from the japanese the president therefore apparently is playing his last card and hazarding every thing on the ability of governor gillett to have the legislation wiped off the statute books or to veto it if governor gillett should be overwhelmingly beaten on a veto his own prestige would be gone as the question at issue louches closely the ethics and social economy of his own state japan relies on roosevelt it is of course known tbat the japanese government is relying on president roose velt to see that california does nothing which in japan's opinion is offensive to the pride of the japanese the gen tleman's agreement between secretary root and ambassador aoki was supposed to have been entered into with the under standing that this government could carry out its pledges and that nothing untoward would be permitted to happen which would render the whole curious document null and void the question is now being daily asked at the astiite house has ambassador takahira called to-day the answer al ways as to-day is that he has not called the ambassador is therefore occupying the position of one who has been promised a definite thing and although he sees the difficulties in the way of fruition he pre fers to maintain the attitude of i am waiting for the fulfillment of your prom ise people here are getting to be of the opin ion that if the japanese ambassador should call again at the tvhite house or at the state department it would be with a direct message from the japanese foreign office for a categorical reply from the president may have another solution the president it is true may have yet unexpended energies and modes of solving the problem but every oue sees that it is becoming more complex and serious from day to day and that if the president does not succeed with the state of california he will not succeed with japan the japanese ambassador may or may not accept the reason officially given for the navy's proposition that the united states war dogs on the pacific be painted war color jt is of course perfectly true that the suggestion that the ships be so painted was made on november 19 and even before that but the suggestion was noted painting of mother and child cut from frame in n y library detectives hunt masterpiece stolen from stuart collection while gallery was unguarded xew vork feb 5 a noted painting mother and child by anton antoiue pins-son was cut from its frame and stolen from the lenox branch of the new york public library some tune to-day a half score of detectives from headquarters are working on the case the painting on canvas had lecn cut from its panel nine by seven inches ac cording to statements made by wilber fcrce kan ies librarian the picture must have been taken while the gallery was left temporarily unguarded in the morning hours and before the regular attendant ar rived the investigation that followed showed that the other 241 paintings in the stuart collection were safe but the most com plete searching and questioning failed to produce piassou's masterpiece mr e.-tmes said he could not place an exact valuation upon the picture but it i known that it was painted in the late 30s plasson the painter produced the mother and child in the height of his fame and that fame led him to an elec tion in tho french academy to medals in the philadelphia exposition and to such appreciation that other specimens of his work fill prominent niches in the collec tions of j p morgan august belmont c i huntington mrs paran stevens and many other american connoisseurs lauds pasteurization â€¢ nathan strauss denies that process makes milk scurvy denial that the use of pasteurized milk causes scury in infants was received yes terday in a telegram from nathan strauss ot new york city to health commissioner w a evans strauss is the philanthropist who established milk stations in new york city for the distribution of pasteurized mill for infant feeding the telegram fol lows statistics will show and i tan prove from seventeen years experience that properly pasteurized miik does not product scurvy the claim is absurd judge mcsurely yesterday afternoon or dered the state to furnish an additional bill of particulars to the defendauts in the so called milk trust cases a petition lyas filed by the indicted milk corporations and their officials thursday in which they al leged that the original bill of particulars prepared by assistant slate's attorney john ii xorthrup was inadequate and un certain the court was asked to compel the state to furnish further details of the charges john d.'s 600,000 is won university of Chicago raises 214,000 for harper memorial library announcement was made at the univer sity of Chicago yesterday that the fund for the library to be erected in memory of the lale president william rainey harper is now complete john d rockefeller's maximum offer of sfioo.ooo has been secured by outside con tribution amounting to 214,000 mr rockefeller agreed to give three dollars for every dollar obtained elsewhere up to the amount of 200,000 this means a total for the memorial library of 814,000 but the fund will grow automatically be tween now and the corner stone laying at the june convocation it is computed that the interest on the money during that time will amount to 06,000 making a grand total of 870,000 to be spent on the library all will be used for the building alone circus bids for caruso tenor is offered 2^3.000 tc sing sixty rimes under tent denver colo feb o eurico caruso ro sing under a circus tent that is what will happen if the world's greatest tenor accepts an offer telegraphed him to-day by otto floto manager of the sells-floto shows who offers the grand opera star 7,500 a week for two songs at each per formance of the circus and the sawdust ring season will last thirty weeks ten weeks salary will be deposited in any new york bank caruso may designate if he ac cepts and has any fears that his weekly stipend will not be promptly forthcoming a contract was mailed to-day to caruso for his signature accompanied by a certi fied check for 10,000 as an evidence of good faith schopl book trust offers cooley job superintendent discusses en ticing proposition with d c heath & co in boston decision due next week expected to Â„ make course known to trustees at next wednesday's meeting v superintendent of schools edwin g cooley has under consideration an offer tc become associated with the school book publishing house of c d heath & co said to be one of the boston branches oi the school book trust 11 he accepts the offer which is understood to be enticing he will resign the place which he has held for the last nine years nt the head of the Chicago public school system mr cooley was in boston yesterday the nesotiations with the heath company were resumed after a mimber of conferences it was understood that mr cooley thought favorably of the offer and it is expected he will piake known his decision soon after his return he is due borne before the meeting of the school board next wednes day night Â„ hurt by art institute fight whether mr cooley s contemplated re tirement from the superintendency of the Chicago public schools has any connection with the war he has been waging on the art institute is a question that only the future can answer it is believed how ever in educational circles that mr coo ley's standing in the Chicago schools has been damaged more seriously by the tire that be drew upon himself from the friends of the art institute thau by any attacks that have ever been made upon him his ukase striking the art institute frcm the list of accredited institutions in which the women teachers of Chicago may takc the promotional courses for salary in creases was fiercely criticised his act was stigmatized as a move intended to aid the prang institute of brooklyn a branch of the schoolbook trust and a would-be rival of the art institute of Chicago and pres ident charles l hutchinson of the chi cago institute publicly denounced mr coo ley's action as uujnst unfair and un called for heath representative reticent an effort to interview mr cooley last night at boston was unsuccessful he was at young's hold all day but left the ity in the evening for xew york william h ives Chicago manager of d c heath & co whose local office is at li7b wabash avenue was loath to discuss the offer of his company to mr cooley i should much prefer to bave mr cooley speak for himself on that subject aid mr ives after he returns he inay have something to say what is the positiou and the salary of fered by d c heath & co to mr cooley was asked i should prefer to defer discussion of those matters was the answer is the salary more than the 10,000 a year that mr cooley is now getting from the board of education the inducements will have to be large to obtain mr cooley's services as he is a very capable man once worked for company has mr cooley ever worked for the heath company why yes he was one of our best hook agents many years ago and the com pany would have been glad at any time to re-engage him mrs edwin g cooley at her home iu la grange said i will not discuss mr cooley's plans at this time he was to have beeu iu bostou to-day when he returns he prob ably will be ready to make a statement on this matter mrs cooley refused to deny that an offer had been made to mr cooley by the heath company uor that he bad the offer under consideration began as a blacksmith the rise of edwin g cooley from the humble trade of a blacksmith in the vil lage of osage la to the position of superintendent of chicago's 200 public schools has been meteoric finding osage and strawberry point too circumscribed for his activities he branched out as a book agent when sales were slow he t.iught school in lowa villages the arts of diplomacy that he cultivated as a book agent attract ed the attention of politicians and he was invited by president mark of the school board at aurora and then the western manager of the prang publishing com pany to become superintendent of schools at aurora he accepted and served in the position for a few years he then moved to la grange cook county his present home where mr mark's influence was said to save made him school superintendent in a few years he was nominated by the democrats for county superintendent of schools but was defeated by orville bright one of his present assistant super intendents he was given his present posi tion by the democrats during mayor har rison's second administration west wind brings snow i colder and unsettled weather is pre diction for to-day wind came into Chicago at thirty-four miles an hour last night bringing with it rain sleet and a heavy fall of snow . the temperature during the day had been ln the vicinity of 53 degrees and a steady rain gave a humidity of so and 96 per cent about 5 o'clock the wind veered to the west and brought a drop in temperature of nineteen degrees the snow melted almost as rapidly as it fell the precipitation re cording 70 of an inch last night the southwester was ceutered over Chicago and rapidly passing eastward leaving colder and unsettled weather for to-daj 27 check raised to one for 27,000 theodore wassermann con tractor arrested and in dicted accuses clerk used to purchase bonds conflicting statements acid to mystery of alleged plot to defraud with the arrest of theodore wassermann president of the general cement construc tion company following his indictment by the grand jury on a charge of having fraudulently obtained 17,000 worth of bonds from the Illinois trust & savings bank by means of a raised certified check there conies to light a most amazing story a story of a carefully laid plan on the part of some one to defraud and of recrimina tion and counter charges from his cell in the county jail wasser mann has issued a statement that he is innocent of any wrongdoing he lays the blame for all his trouble at the door of max gatter tor two years a clerk in was sermann's employ gatter insists that he was made a too of by wassermann that he is innocent of anything that savors of fraud his friends and wealthy relatives back him up in these statements says right man is indicted david c dunbar general counsel of the Illinois trust & savings bank says the grand jury indicted the right per son the facts on which there is no contra dicting testimony are these on friday january 29 a certified check for 27,000 was presented at the Illinois trust & savings bank and with this check 527.000 of bonds were purchased the check wns signed hy theodore wasser mann the certification of the check v/as made by the state bank of Chicago where wassermann carried an account seven teen thousand dollars worth of bonds south side elevated and city railway bonds were delivered to the man who made the purchase the remaining 10 of'o worth of bonds were to be delivered iter the noxl day it was discovered that the check originally had beeu certified for 27 and had been raised to 27,900 imme diately there was a scramble by officials of the Illinois trust & savings bank to obtain a return of the bouds some were returned the indictment of wassermann and his arrest followed gave clerk 27 check a week ago last thursday january 28 in the kaiserhof hotel gatter who had been my clerk for two years asked me for a check for 27 saying be wanted to pay his rent says avassermann i made out the check and gave it to him wassermann showed me a check for 27 made out to my order and asked me to indorse it says gatter i did so that's all i know about it a careful inspection of the check shows evidence that it was carefully made out there is evidence that in the place in which the figures 27-00-100 hud been writ ten there was a space left between the 27 and the 00-100 big enough to place three ciphers there is also evidence that in the body of the check where the words tweuty-seven and no 100 dollars was written there was a space between the words v seven nud and so that the per son who raised the check merely had to write in the letters thous to make it read twenty-seven thousand no 100 dol lars gatter is a stepson of albeit graff of albert graff & co cement contractors his wife is a daughter of p j o'shea a lawyer joseph m hodra paying teller of the state bank does not remember who pre sented the check to him for certification wassermann says lie did not gatter says he did not wassermann insists that he did uot buy the bonds of tho Illinois trust & savings company gatter has not admitted that he made the purchase made good the notes gatter has been borrowing niouey of me ever since he worked for the said wassermann yesterday ftbe amount ran up to 5,000 and i held his notes for this amount friday a week ago he came to me and said my wife has sold a big piece of property i owe you 6,600 here arc so.ooo worth of bonds give me mv nolcs i did so i took the bunds to the metropolitan trust & savings bank and opened two accounts one a personal ac count anil one for the construction com pany hypothecating the bonds the tii'st unit 1 knew that my check had been raised and 17.0<>0 worth of bonds purchased was when attorney dunbar came to me and demanded the return of the bonds i've still got the 6,000 worth of them and will not return them until i gel the money gatter owes me i wns unaware of the use of the check until mv dunbar counsel for the Illinois trust & savings bank called me to his office said gatter some of the bonds at least were returned to the bank from st louis we got the bonds in au indirect way from wassermann sais attorney dunbar the transaction for the purchase of the bouds took only a few minutes because it is said some one either wassernianu or gatter had arranged for the purchase pre viously testimony is contradictory as to whether it was wassermann or gatter climbs 50 feet to sleep quarantine i forces i c agent to mount ladder to station attic a lofty climb tip a do-foot ladder to an abandoned attic ou the third floor of the cheltenham station ou the Illinois central railroad is a task that joseph castle the station agent has to perform each nl"ht before he can retire castle's two children joseph tour and agnes eight are ill of scarlet fever on the second floor and ten days ago these rooms were placed under quarantine by the board of health neighbors gather every evening to watch castk climb to his room " lcu 1 arrested contractor and 27 check raised to 27,000 in the above facsimile of the raised check space was left between the twenty-seven and the and no-100 in which thons was written in the figures space was left between sb7 " and no-100 in which three ciphers were written empty pews new church war move [' western avenue congregation ; promises chill reception for div brushingham the western avenue methodist church which is in rebellion against the church : authorities yesterday yielded a minor point for the sake of keeping the controversy to the one issue â€” the propriety of the ap pointment of a man to their pulpit without their consent the official board accord ing to t r patterson one its members notified dr w a patton who had beeu ais keel to preach to-morrow that a pastor had been appointed and be would not be expected so the bey john p brushingham will have the pulpit entirely to himself if he sees tit to conduct services and it is in timated hy leaders of the church that he will have the pews to himself too they say however that the chill reception tbat is planned for hinj will be a thoroughly dignified one they wish to behave as church people should but they do uot want mr brushingham for a pastor and every moans of making that fact perfectly understood will be adopted there are still two chances that dr brushingham will not talk to empty seats one is that a telegram removing him may come from the bishop and the other that he may arrange to exchange pulpits for the day with some other preacher ' if he preaches said one of the trus tees his reception will certainly be a cold one but we shall not lock the church or have the janitor forget to heat up or anything childish of that sort we do not want any undignified demonstration there is a possibility tbat the bishop will act before sunday but it is a very remote one what i hope for is that dr brushingham will be wise enough to ex change pulpits with another for that day that has been suggested to liini but i do not know whether he will accept the advice at present it seems as though be were bound set and determined to keep the phiee â€” it is a good one and pays a good salary whether he is wanted or not it is a curious case the bishop blundered badly and i don't know what will come of it a leader in the work of the church said he would not have felt so strongly against mr brushingham had the latter been thrust into the place unwittingly but he was convinced that he had asked for the appointment dr brushingham's reply to every inquiry was i have been appointed i must carry out the duties of my position please ex cuse me from discussing any other phase of the matter 4 warships for pacific part of atlantic fleet to be reply to western interests vallejo cal feb s mews has been received at mare island navy yard that as soon as the atlantic battleship fleet reaches hampton bonds the battleships montana mississippi idaho and xew hampshire will sail for the pacific sev eral other battleships are also scheduled to start for the pacific coast soon it is said that this change of plan is the result of the pressure of business interests in the west for a more represeutative fleet in roosevelt vetoes bill for census sends special message to hcuse urging appointment by competitive examination washington feb the president sent a special mesage to the house to day vetoing the census bill the message said in part i herewith return without approval h r 3 6.954 entitled an act to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses i do this with extreme re luctance because i fully realize the im portance of supplying the director of the census at as early date as possible with ihe force necessary to the currying ou of his work but it is of high consequence to the country that the statistical work of the census shall be conducted with en tire accuracy this is as important from the standpoint of business and industry as from the scientific standpoint it is therefore in my judgment essential that the result should not be open to the sus picion of bias on political and personal grounds that it should uot be open to the reasonable suspicion of being a waste of ihe people's money and a fraud section 7 of the act provides in effect that appointments to the census shall be under the spoils system for this is the real miming of the provision that they shall be subject only to noncompetitive examina tion the proviso is added that they shall be selected without regard to political tarty affiliation but then is ouly one way to guarantee that they shall be se lected without regard to politics and on merit and ihtil is by choosing tuein after competitive examination from the lists of eligibles provid b.v the civil service commission there is unquestionably a large and in fluential sentiment in favor of passiug the ml over the president's veto if the veto wore overridden ibo bill would ot course remain as it is and appointments outside of civil service rules would stand which would be a very grateful condition to many members vf congress who believe in as n any personal appointments as possible churchill creates stir refers in speech to probable dissolu tion of parliament ni;wcastle-i;pon-thv.\e fob 5 winston spencer churchill president of the board of trade in a speech here to night said that a general election already is on the horizon and will not be improp erly retarded such a statement by a member of the government will cause a flutter in political circles there have been rumors lately of considerable differences in the cabinet on the navy question an in fluential section being opposed to a great increase in the building programme it is believed however that mr churchill was alluding to the probability of a disso lution of parliament after the next session as an outcome of difficulties in meeting a large deficit in the budget legislature to phobe browne plot told by nemesis plan investigation of woman's threat to kill minority forfeits her 14 bond efforts to find mysterious foe vain michael giblin also disappears party bosses alarmed sullivan and allies chagrined at reflection on themselves and headquarters the legislature is in a turmoil and the democratic leaders of Chicago are spending theii time in framing up vigorous alibis anil denials as the result of the alleged at tempt to ruin the reputation and pres tige of representative lee o'neil browne minority leader of the house by having a woman denounce him on the floor last wednesday of such great importance has this scandal become that a legislative in vestigation is almost certain browne still insists that the mysterious flor ence miller â€” now vanished again antl absolutely unvdentified â€” was incited ts | the demonstration b.v his political ene mies as she avowed in her confession his opponents in the party as ve ; hemently declare that browne planned it all himself in the hope of bringing opprobrium on his opponents both forfeit bond be those charges and counter-charges u they mav hte fact remains that when the case of the mysterious woman was called before justice early in springfield yester day afternoon she was among the missing likewise missing was michael giblin a legislature employe appointed by browne vvho was arrested with her on thursday / the justice walled fo an hour for the couple to put in an appearance then the ball a cash bail of 14 each deposited by no one seems to know whom was declared forfeited and the case was ended so far as any court action in springfield is con cerned lee o'neill browne vehemently denies that be put up the forfeit of 14 for the woman j denial by sullivan and allies 4 much importance is attached to the fact that the woman sulci the plot was hatched in the sherman ttousc tho sherman house is the headquarters of roger sulli van and bis lieutenants sullivan and his right-hand men deny they know a woman answering florence miller's description or that they ever participated in a conference iu the college fan regarding ways and menus of tearing the minority leader down from his high pedestal i answer to ihcir counter insinuations browne gave out the following statement last ni^lit rumors that i bave known this woman for a long time are untrue i have never seen her and do not know whether she is white or black i have no desire to meel her i want everybody to understand that i atn in the open on this proposition and that there in nothing i wish to cover up i aui still of the opinion that it is a frame-up by my political enemies the woman's statement substantiates me in this assertion i insist that nothing will be covered up so far as i am concerned ignorant of woman's whereabouts i have told all that i know iu the case and have not been informed whether the woman is io springfield or has succeeded in getting away perhaps others who are more interested thau i bave kept a close watch on her actions nd eau tell where she is the roger sullivan democrats of Chicago seem to appreciate the cloud cast over their fair names and the fair nume of their headquarters by the stubborn declarations of the minority leader tbat florence miller came shrieking into the capitol demanding his life because some politicians put her up to it they give the public credit for knowing that it would be to their advan tage if some such untoward accident were to happen to browne and they realize th difficulty in the way of demonstrating tlia the sensational affair was merely au unfor tunate coincidence so to speak from the public's viewpoint a plain exegcticul rendition of the iucl dent from the public's point of view would read as follows it happened a woman denouueed browne in the corridors of the house a a man who hud fooled her and many other women it was an act that would redound to the advantage of roger sulli van and his friends roger sullivan and his friends have never been noted for a their scruples the woman when arrested m confessed that she did uol kjfciw btowaa m continued on 4th page 4th column w c mil mm l ~ lnimmmafflmhiiinir " ' ' linn'iini-nim l i|fj weather forecast m \Â°% Chicago and vicinity prob m r â€¢ ably threatening and colder satur %* i x t day sunday partly cloudy brisk vjf to high northwest winds becoming ill jjsv light and variable p^k v y thousands will hear it j \\ examiner want ads m x.w "*>"*-â– -â– *â– ten Chicago a school children j will go to washington to the inauguration of president Taft 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Chicago examiner Chicago examiner vou vii no 41 a m saturday february 6 1909 14 pages price one cent deliver by carrier 30 cents per month senate of oregon joins anti-japan agitation with exclusion bill measure asks that all oriental races be barred from the united states situation is more acute nevada assembly passes law prohibiting landownership by asiatics g arson city nev feb 5 late this afternoon the nevada assembly passed the anti-alien land bill introduced by representative giffen this bill prohibits asiatics and japanese from ownership of land or mortgages salem oregon feb 5 â€” senator bailey introduced in the state sen ate to-day a resolution providing for the exclusion of all asiatics but it w?s not reported in time for action before the adjournment at noon the resolution is sweeping it names chi nese japanese and hindus and in cludes all rfces of the orient asking to prohibit their admission settlement or naturalization in the united states washington d c feb s the american-japanese situation is more complex and full of dangerous pos sibilities to-day than it has been since the renewal of the so-called anti-japanese agitation on the pa cific coast this situation is amply corroborated between the lines of the assertion of the president himself wben be telegraphed governor gillett tbat segregative legislation passed by the california assembly is the most offensive of all to japanese this statement of the president it is believed must bave been originally as now predicated on specific threats to this government by the japanese government policy of silence dangerous there is good reason to believe ihat the japanese ambassador is sulking in his tent and that be will not make any fur ther protest to this government a policy of silence on the part of a nation in acute controversy with another nation is always dangerous it appears now that the president can not appeal to senators flint and perkins to assist him in the new problem sen ator perkins believes that the president is wrong in opposing the segregation legis lation and although senator flint has uot expressed himself it is well known that he is not opposed to the separatiou of white children from the japanese the president therefore apparently is playing his last card and hazarding every thing on the ability of governor gillett to have the legislation wiped off the statute books or to veto it if governor gillett should be overwhelmingly beaten on a veto his own prestige would be gone as the question at issue louches closely the ethics and social economy of his own state japan relies on roosevelt it is of course known tbat the japanese government is relying on president roose velt to see that california does nothing which in japan's opinion is offensive to the pride of the japanese the gen tleman's agreement between secretary root and ambassador aoki was supposed to have been entered into with the under standing that this government could carry out its pledges and that nothing untoward would be permitted to happen which would render the whole curious document null and void the question is now being daily asked at the astiite house has ambassador takahira called to-day the answer al ways as to-day is that he has not called the ambassador is therefore occupying the position of one who has been promised a definite thing and although he sees the difficulties in the way of fruition he pre fers to maintain the attitude of i am waiting for the fulfillment of your prom ise people here are getting to be of the opin ion that if the japanese ambassador should call again at the tvhite house or at the state department it would be with a direct message from the japanese foreign office for a categorical reply from the president may have another solution the president it is true may have yet unexpended energies and modes of solving the problem but every oue sees that it is becoming more complex and serious from day to day and that if the president does not succeed with the state of california he will not succeed with japan the japanese ambassador may or may not accept the reason officially given for the navy's proposition that the united states war dogs on the pacific be painted war color jt is of course perfectly true that the suggestion that the ships be so painted was made on november 19 and even before that but the suggestion was noted painting of mother and child cut from frame in n y library detectives hunt masterpiece stolen from stuart collection while gallery was unguarded xew vork feb 5 a noted painting mother and child by anton antoiue pins-son was cut from its frame and stolen from the lenox branch of the new york public library some tune to-day a half score of detectives from headquarters are working on the case the painting on canvas had lecn cut from its panel nine by seven inches ac cording to statements made by wilber fcrce kan ies librarian the picture must have been taken while the gallery was left temporarily unguarded in the morning hours and before the regular attendant ar rived the investigation that followed showed that the other 241 paintings in the stuart collection were safe but the most com plete searching and questioning failed to produce piassou's masterpiece mr e.-tmes said he could not place an exact valuation upon the picture but it i known that it was painted in the late 30s plasson the painter produced the mother and child in the height of his fame and that fame led him to an elec tion in tho french academy to medals in the philadelphia exposition and to such appreciation that other specimens of his work fill prominent niches in the collec tions of j p morgan august belmont c i huntington mrs paran stevens and many other american connoisseurs lauds pasteurization â€¢ nathan strauss denies that process makes milk scurvy denial that the use of pasteurized milk causes scury in infants was received yes terday in a telegram from nathan strauss ot new york city to health commissioner w a evans strauss is the philanthropist who established milk stations in new york city for the distribution of pasteurized mill for infant feeding the telegram fol lows statistics will show and i tan prove from seventeen years experience that properly pasteurized miik does not product scurvy the claim is absurd judge mcsurely yesterday afternoon or dered the state to furnish an additional bill of particulars to the defendauts in the so called milk trust cases a petition lyas filed by the indicted milk corporations and their officials thursday in which they al leged that the original bill of particulars prepared by assistant slate's attorney john ii xorthrup was inadequate and un certain the court was asked to compel the state to furnish further details of the charges john d.'s 600,000 is won university of Chicago raises 214,000 for harper memorial library announcement was made at the univer sity of Chicago yesterday that the fund for the library to be erected in memory of the lale president william rainey harper is now complete john d rockefeller's maximum offer of sfioo.ooo has been secured by outside con tribution amounting to 214,000 mr rockefeller agreed to give three dollars for every dollar obtained elsewhere up to the amount of 200,000 this means a total for the memorial library of 814,000 but the fund will grow automatically be tween now and the corner stone laying at the june convocation it is computed that the interest on the money during that time will amount to 06,000 making a grand total of 870,000 to be spent on the library all will be used for the building alone circus bids for caruso tenor is offered 2^3.000 tc sing sixty rimes under tent denver colo feb o eurico caruso ro sing under a circus tent that is what will happen if the world's greatest tenor accepts an offer telegraphed him to-day by otto floto manager of the sells-floto shows who offers the grand opera star 7,500 a week for two songs at each per formance of the circus and the sawdust ring season will last thirty weeks ten weeks salary will be deposited in any new york bank caruso may designate if he ac cepts and has any fears that his weekly stipend will not be promptly forthcoming a contract was mailed to-day to caruso for his signature accompanied by a certi fied check for 10,000 as an evidence of good faith schopl book trust offers cooley job superintendent discusses en ticing proposition with d c heath & co in boston decision due next week expected to Â„ make course known to trustees at next wednesday's meeting v superintendent of schools edwin g cooley has under consideration an offer tc become associated with the school book publishing house of c d heath & co said to be one of the boston branches oi the school book trust 11 he accepts the offer which is understood to be enticing he will resign the place which he has held for the last nine years nt the head of the Chicago public school system mr cooley was in boston yesterday the nesotiations with the heath company were resumed after a mimber of conferences it was understood that mr cooley thought favorably of the offer and it is expected he will piake known his decision soon after his return he is due borne before the meeting of the school board next wednes day night Â„ hurt by art institute fight whether mr cooley s contemplated re tirement from the superintendency of the Chicago public schools has any connection with the war he has been waging on the art institute is a question that only the future can answer it is believed how ever in educational circles that mr coo ley's standing in the Chicago schools has been damaged more seriously by the tire that be drew upon himself from the friends of the art institute thau by any attacks that have ever been made upon him his ukase striking the art institute frcm the list of accredited institutions in which the women teachers of Chicago may takc the promotional courses for salary in creases was fiercely criticised his act was stigmatized as a move intended to aid the prang institute of brooklyn a branch of the schoolbook trust and a would-be rival of the art institute of Chicago and pres ident charles l hutchinson of the chi cago institute publicly denounced mr coo ley's action as uujnst unfair and un called for heath representative reticent an effort to interview mr cooley last night at boston was unsuccessful he was at young's hold all day but left the ity in the evening for xew york william h ives Chicago manager of d c heath & co whose local office is at li7b wabash avenue was loath to discuss the offer of his company to mr cooley i should much prefer to bave mr cooley speak for himself on that subject aid mr ives after he returns he inay have something to say what is the positiou and the salary of fered by d c heath & co to mr cooley was asked i should prefer to defer discussion of those matters was the answer is the salary more than the 10,000 a year that mr cooley is now getting from the board of education the inducements will have to be large to obtain mr cooley's services as he is a very capable man once worked for company has mr cooley ever worked for the heath company why yes he was one of our best hook agents many years ago and the com pany would have been glad at any time to re-engage him mrs edwin g cooley at her home iu la grange said i will not discuss mr cooley's plans at this time he was to have beeu iu bostou to-day when he returns he prob ably will be ready to make a statement on this matter mrs cooley refused to deny that an offer had been made to mr cooley by the heath company uor that he bad the offer under consideration began as a blacksmith the rise of edwin g cooley from the humble trade of a blacksmith in the vil lage of osage la to the position of superintendent of chicago's 200 public schools has been meteoric finding osage and strawberry point too circumscribed for his activities he branched out as a book agent when sales were slow he t.iught school in lowa villages the arts of diplomacy that he cultivated as a book agent attract ed the attention of politicians and he was invited by president mark of the school board at aurora and then the western manager of the prang publishing com pany to become superintendent of schools at aurora he accepted and served in the position for a few years he then moved to la grange cook county his present home where mr mark's influence was said to save made him school superintendent in a few years he was nominated by the democrats for county superintendent of schools but was defeated by orville bright one of his present assistant super intendents he was given his present posi tion by the democrats during mayor har rison's second administration west wind brings snow i colder and unsettled weather is pre diction for to-day wind came into Chicago at thirty-four miles an hour last night bringing with it rain sleet and a heavy fall of snow . the temperature during the day had been ln the vicinity of 53 degrees and a steady rain gave a humidity of so and 96 per cent about 5 o'clock the wind veered to the west and brought a drop in temperature of nineteen degrees the snow melted almost as rapidly as it fell the precipitation re cording 70 of an inch last night the southwester was ceutered over Chicago and rapidly passing eastward leaving colder and unsettled weather for to-daj 27 check raised to one for 27,000 theodore wassermann con tractor arrested and in dicted accuses clerk used to purchase bonds conflicting statements acid to mystery of alleged plot to defraud with the arrest of theodore wassermann president of the general cement construc tion company following his indictment by the grand jury on a charge of having fraudulently obtained 17,000 worth of bonds from the Illinois trust & savings bank by means of a raised certified check there conies to light a most amazing story a story of a carefully laid plan on the part of some one to defraud and of recrimina tion and counter charges from his cell in the county jail wasser mann has issued a statement that he is innocent of any wrongdoing he lays the blame for all his trouble at the door of max gatter tor two years a clerk in was sermann's employ gatter insists that he was made a too of by wassermann that he is innocent of anything that savors of fraud his friends and wealthy relatives back him up in these statements says right man is indicted david c dunbar general counsel of the Illinois trust & savings bank says the grand jury indicted the right per son the facts on which there is no contra dicting testimony are these on friday january 29 a certified check for 27,000 was presented at the Illinois trust & savings bank and with this check 527.000 of bonds were purchased the check wns signed hy theodore wasser mann the certification of the check v/as made by the state bank of Chicago where wassermann carried an account seven teen thousand dollars worth of bonds south side elevated and city railway bonds were delivered to the man who made the purchase the remaining 10 of'o worth of bonds were to be delivered iter the noxl day it was discovered that the check originally had beeu certified for 27 and had been raised to 27,900 imme diately there was a scramble by officials of the Illinois trust & savings bank to obtain a return of the bouds some were returned the indictment of wassermann and his arrest followed gave clerk 27 check a week ago last thursday january 28 in the kaiserhof hotel gatter who had been my clerk for two years asked me for a check for 27 saying be wanted to pay his rent says avassermann i made out the check and gave it to him wassermann showed me a check for 27 made out to my order and asked me to indorse it says gatter i did so that's all i know about it a careful inspection of the check shows evidence that it was carefully made out there is evidence that in the place in which the figures 27-00-100 hud been writ ten there was a space left between the 27 and the 00-100 big enough to place three ciphers there is also evidence that in the body of the check where the words tweuty-seven and no 100 dollars was written there was a space between the words v seven nud and so that the per son who raised the check merely had to write in the letters thous to make it read twenty-seven thousand no 100 dol lars gatter is a stepson of albeit graff of albert graff & co cement contractors his wife is a daughter of p j o'shea a lawyer joseph m hodra paying teller of the state bank does not remember who pre sented the check to him for certification wassermann says lie did not gatter says he did not wassermann insists that he did uot buy the bonds of tho Illinois trust & savings company gatter has not admitted that he made the purchase made good the notes gatter has been borrowing niouey of me ever since he worked for the said wassermann yesterday ftbe amount ran up to 5,000 and i held his notes for this amount friday a week ago he came to me and said my wife has sold a big piece of property i owe you 6,600 here arc so.ooo worth of bonds give me mv nolcs i did so i took the bunds to the metropolitan trust & savings bank and opened two accounts one a personal ac count anil one for the construction com pany hypothecating the bonds the tii'st unit 1 knew that my check had been raised and 17.0<>0 worth of bonds purchased was when attorney dunbar came to me and demanded the return of the bonds i've still got the 6,000 worth of them and will not return them until i gel the money gatter owes me i wns unaware of the use of the check until mv dunbar counsel for the Illinois trust & savings bank called me to his office said gatter some of the bonds at least were returned to the bank from st louis we got the bonds in au indirect way from wassermann sais attorney dunbar the transaction for the purchase of the bouds took only a few minutes because it is said some one either wassernianu or gatter had arranged for the purchase pre viously testimony is contradictory as to whether it was wassermann or gatter climbs 50 feet to sleep quarantine i forces i c agent to mount ladder to station attic a lofty climb tip a do-foot ladder to an abandoned attic ou the third floor of the cheltenham station ou the Illinois central railroad is a task that joseph castle the station agent has to perform each nl"ht before he can retire castle's two children joseph tour and agnes eight are ill of scarlet fever on the second floor and ten days ago these rooms were placed under quarantine by the board of health neighbors gather every evening to watch castk climb to his room " lcu 1 arrested contractor and 27 check raised to 27,000 in the above facsimile of the raised check space was left between the twenty-seven and the and no-100 in which thons was written in the figures space was left between sb7 " and no-100 in which three ciphers were written empty pews new church war move [' western avenue congregation ; promises chill reception for div brushingham the western avenue methodist church which is in rebellion against the church : authorities yesterday yielded a minor point for the sake of keeping the controversy to the one issue â€” the propriety of the ap pointment of a man to their pulpit without their consent the official board accord ing to t r patterson one its members notified dr w a patton who had beeu ais keel to preach to-morrow that a pastor had been appointed and be would not be expected so the bey john p brushingham will have the pulpit entirely to himself if he sees tit to conduct services and it is in timated hy leaders of the church that he will have the pews to himself too they say however that the chill reception tbat is planned for hinj will be a thoroughly dignified one they wish to behave as church people should but they do uot want mr brushingham for a pastor and every moans of making that fact perfectly understood will be adopted there are still two chances that dr brushingham will not talk to empty seats one is that a telegram removing him may come from the bishop and the other that he may arrange to exchange pulpits for the day with some other preacher ' if he preaches said one of the trus tees his reception will certainly be a cold one but we shall not lock the church or have the janitor forget to heat up or anything childish of that sort we do not want any undignified demonstration there is a possibility tbat the bishop will act before sunday but it is a very remote one what i hope for is that dr brushingham will be wise enough to ex change pulpits with another for that day that has been suggested to liini but i do not know whether he will accept the advice at present it seems as though be were bound set and determined to keep the phiee â€” it is a good one and pays a good salary whether he is wanted or not it is a curious case the bishop blundered badly and i don't know what will come of it a leader in the work of the church said he would not have felt so strongly against mr brushingham had the latter been thrust into the place unwittingly but he was convinced that he had asked for the appointment dr brushingham's reply to every inquiry was i have been appointed i must carry out the duties of my position please ex cuse me from discussing any other phase of the matter 4 warships for pacific part of atlantic fleet to be reply to western interests vallejo cal feb s mews has been received at mare island navy yard that as soon as the atlantic battleship fleet reaches hampton bonds the battleships montana mississippi idaho and xew hampshire will sail for the pacific sev eral other battleships are also scheduled to start for the pacific coast soon it is said that this change of plan is the result of the pressure of business interests in the west for a more represeutative fleet in roosevelt vetoes bill for census sends special message to hcuse urging appointment by competitive examination washington feb the president sent a special mesage to the house to day vetoing the census bill the message said in part i herewith return without approval h r 3 6.954 entitled an act to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses i do this with extreme re luctance because i fully realize the im portance of supplying the director of the census at as early date as possible with ihe force necessary to the currying ou of his work but it is of high consequence to the country that the statistical work of the census shall be conducted with en tire accuracy this is as important from the standpoint of business and industry as from the scientific standpoint it is therefore in my judgment essential that the result should not be open to the sus picion of bias on political and personal grounds that it should uot be open to the reasonable suspicion of being a waste of ihe people's money and a fraud section 7 of the act provides in effect that appointments to the census shall be under the spoils system for this is the real miming of the provision that they shall be subject only to noncompetitive examina tion the proviso is added that they shall be selected without regard to political tarty affiliation but then is ouly one way to guarantee that they shall be se lected without regard to politics and on merit and ihtil is by choosing tuein after competitive examination from the lists of eligibles provid b.v the civil service commission there is unquestionably a large and in fluential sentiment in favor of passiug the ml over the president's veto if the veto wore overridden ibo bill would ot course remain as it is and appointments outside of civil service rules would stand which would be a very grateful condition to many members vf congress who believe in as n any personal appointments as possible churchill creates stir refers in speech to probable dissolu tion of parliament ni;wcastle-i;pon-thv.\e fob 5 winston spencer churchill president of the board of trade in a speech here to night said that a general election already is on the horizon and will not be improp erly retarded such a statement by a member of the government will cause a flutter in political circles there have been rumors lately of considerable differences in the cabinet on the navy question an in fluential section being opposed to a great increase in the building programme it is believed however that mr churchill was alluding to the probability of a disso lution of parliament after the next session as an outcome of difficulties in meeting a large deficit in the budget legislature to phobe browne plot told by nemesis plan investigation of woman's threat to kill minority forfeits her 14 bond efforts to find mysterious foe vain michael giblin also disappears party bosses alarmed sullivan and allies chagrined at reflection on themselves and headquarters the legislature is in a turmoil and the democratic leaders of Chicago are spending theii time in framing up vigorous alibis anil denials as the result of the alleged at tempt to ruin the reputation and pres tige of representative lee o'neil browne minority leader of the house by having a woman denounce him on the floor last wednesday of such great importance has this scandal become that a legislative in vestigation is almost certain browne still insists that the mysterious flor ence miller â€” now vanished again antl absolutely unvdentified â€” was incited ts | the demonstration b.v his political ene mies as she avowed in her confession his opponents in the party as ve ; hemently declare that browne planned it all himself in the hope of bringing opprobrium on his opponents both forfeit bond be those charges and counter-charges u they mav hte fact remains that when the case of the mysterious woman was called before justice early in springfield yester day afternoon she was among the missing likewise missing was michael giblin a legislature employe appointed by browne vvho was arrested with her on thursday / the justice walled fo an hour for the couple to put in an appearance then the ball a cash bail of 14 each deposited by no one seems to know whom was declared forfeited and the case was ended so far as any court action in springfield is con cerned lee o'neill browne vehemently denies that be put up the forfeit of 14 for the woman j denial by sullivan and allies 4 much importance is attached to the fact that the woman sulci the plot was hatched in the sherman ttousc tho sherman house is the headquarters of roger sulli van and bis lieutenants sullivan and his right-hand men deny they know a woman answering florence miller's description or that they ever participated in a conference iu the college fan regarding ways and menus of tearing the minority leader down from his high pedestal i answer to ihcir counter insinuations browne gave out the following statement last ni^lit rumors that i bave known this woman for a long time are untrue i have never seen her and do not know whether she is white or black i have no desire to meel her i want everybody to understand that i atn in the open on this proposition and that there in nothing i wish to cover up i aui still of the opinion that it is a frame-up by my political enemies the woman's statement substantiates me in this assertion i insist that nothing will be covered up so far as i am concerned ignorant of woman's whereabouts i have told all that i know iu the case and have not been informed whether the woman is io springfield or has succeeded in getting away perhaps others who are more interested thau i bave kept a close watch on her actions nd eau tell where she is the roger sullivan democrats of Chicago seem to appreciate the cloud cast over their fair names and the fair nume of their headquarters by the stubborn declarations of the minority leader tbat florence miller came shrieking into the capitol demanding his life because some politicians put her up to it they give the public credit for knowing that it would be to their advan tage if some such untoward accident were to happen to browne and they realize th difficulty in the way of demonstrating tlia the sensational affair was merely au unfor tunate coincidence so to speak from the public's viewpoint a plain exegcticul rendition of the iucl dent from the public's point of view would read as follows it happened a woman denouueed browne in the corridors of the house a a man who hud fooled her and many other women it was an act that would redound to the advantage of roger sulli van and his friends roger sullivan and his friends have never been noted for a their scruples the woman when arrested m confessed that she did uol kjfciw btowaa m continued on 4th page 4th column w c mil mm l ~ lnimmmafflmhiiinir " ' ' linn'iini-nim l i|fj weather forecast m \Â°% Chicago and vicinity prob m r â€¢ ably threatening and colder satur %* i x t day sunday partly cloudy brisk vjf to high northwest winds becoming ill jjsv light and variable p^k v y thousands will hear it j \\ examiner want ads m x.w "*>"*-â– -â– *â– ten Chicago a school children j will go to washington to the inauguration of president Taft 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